What To Do This Weekend
Matt Hooke, A&E Editor
November 9, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Fine Arts, Local Events, Music, What to do this Week
Friday, Nov. 9 What: The Drowsy Chaperone When: Friday/Saturday 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday 3 to 4:30 p.m. Where: Eldred Theatre The Case Western Reserve University Department of Theater presents “The Drowsy Chaperone.” The musical comedy written by Bob Martin, Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert an...
House of Wills seance brings the dead back among the living
Michael Wu, Staff Reporter
November 9, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Features, Local Events, Top Stories
This is a first person account of a seance at the House of Wills, an abandoned funeral home in Cleveland. The article features references to the occult and Satanism. I’m running late to the seance. Despite my plans to arrive at the historic, haunted and infamous House of Wills 30 minutes before the seance i...
Tactile Carnival raises the awareness of sensory disabilities
Tracy Wang, Staff Reporter
November 9, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Local Events
On November 4, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), gave visitors the chance to experience the life of deaf and blind people at their Tactile Carnival. The carnival was a collaboration with the Cleveland Sight Center, Community Center for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Cuyahoga County Board of De...
Acoustic guitar, karaoke and free drinks: This is ‘Sing Bro’
Henry Bendon, Staff Reporter
November 9, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Local Events, Music, Top Stories
If you like free beer, watching your friends embarrass themselves and fun song covers, the Jolly Scholar has a new event for you. Each Monday night, the Jolly Scholar hosts “Sing Bro,” a new event hosted by third-year student Nick Charles and second-year students Conor Clark and Jared Jacknow, where ...
Footlighters’ “If/Then” offers emotional experience, displays young talent
Kyle Smith, Staff Reporter
November 9, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Fine Arts, Theater & Dance
“If/Then” is a musical that every college student should see. It asks many of the questions that keep young adults up at night: questions about fate and chance, choice and consequence. The show seeks to answer these questions and more, but occasionally the best the show can do is throw up its han...
Playlist of the Week
Kyle Smith, Staff Reporter
November 9, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Music, Playlist of the Week, Top Stories
Are you going to a party this weekend? Do you think there will be any insufferable music nerds there? Do you want to impress them with your excellent knowledge of niche music? This week’s playlist is a good place to start solidifying your hipster credibility. “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” - Neutra...
Catch art, music this weekend
Matt Hooke, A&E Editor
November 2, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Local Events
Friday, Nov. 1 If/Then Where: Carlton Commons When: Friday and Saturday 8 p.m., Saturday 11:59 p.m. The CWRU Footlighters present their performance of “If/Then,” a musical by Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt and Michael Grief. The show follows Elizabeth, who must choose between going to a prote...
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – Column 3
David Lucas, Poet
November 2, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Poetry & Literature
This the third monthly column by full-time Case Western Reserve University lecturer and Ohio Poet Laureate Dave Lucas. The column will appear in other publications. “I never got poetry,” someone says to me again. And I sigh. Because I never got it either—at least, not until I learned to s...
“First Man” gives audiences a harrowing and compelling journey to the moon
Lars Torres, Staff Reporter
November 2, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Film and Television
After four years, Damien Chazelle has cemented himself as one of this generation’s great directors with the masterpieces “Whiplash” in 2014 and “La La Land” in 2016. His newest film, “First Man,” is a complete change in subject matter and tone from his previous films, as Chazelle seeks to pro...
Jolly Comedy Hour brings stand-up comedy to campus
Aura Rossy, Staff Reporter
November 2, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Comedy, Local Events, Top Stories
Jolly Comedy Hour, held on Saturday, Oct. 27, marked the first stand-up comedy event at the Jolly Scholar. The event featured headliner Vishnu Akella, Brett Thomas and Marcello Hernandez. Thomas, the recipient of 2018 Cleveland Comedy Awards for “Best Joke Short-form” and “Rookie of the Year...
